Is This How Microsoft Designed Its New Logo…By Copying Apple?

Yesterday we told you that Microsoft re-designed their logo to bring it up to speed with their latest “Metro” design standards. The logo features a sans-serif font called Segoe, and different coloured squares that Microsoft says “express the company’s diverse portfolio of products.”

Have you ever wondered how Microsoft’s design team came up with this new logo? Well, if you have, trained graphic artist Andrew Watson seems to have figured it out…

According to this infographic of sorts Microsoft has decided to take a more direct approach to designing their new logo and chose a font very similar to Apple’s corporate font “Myriad Pro.” Regardless of how you take this, it is interesting that Microsoft would use a font similar to its largest competitor.

Is this just some conspiracy theory made up by an Apple fanboy? Or do you see some truth in Watson’s claims? Share your responses in the comments section below.

Different (although similar in some ways) font, with a different color scheme to the font, accompanied by a non-similar logo which was changed to a different logo which is still dissimilar to any logo Apple has ever had.

If I were a bit more ambitious, I’d be looking for any magazine or website which predates Apple, which used a similar font, to make the same “point” against Apple. But that would be stupid.

you’re a douchebag

think you’re chatting some shit, even though i prefer apple

http://www.facebook.com/mario.fernandezpayro Mario Fernández Payró

they are not trying to copy anyone, the are making the squares more metro fell and they used the segoe font that they created. it all goes in hand with its new aesthetics

Shigllgecha

this article is just pathetic

Jaden

It’s meant to be taken humorously, not seriously :P

berock212

Yes if you change the colour, font, words, and add a logo, then Microsoft did copy apple. Are they serious. That’s like using Photoshop so to make my face look like your face then claiming I copied the design of your face.